Servicemen's remains overlooked

In the Times of May 15 I reported that the remains of Italian and German airmen who were shot down over Malta during World War II were in April 1964 removed from Malta and re-interred in the Italian and German war cemeteries in Sardinia.

Since then I have come to know that seven months later, it was found that the remains of three Italian servicemen had been overlooked.

One was a merchant seaman whose body had been washed ashore at Comino and the other two were Italian airmen who were picked up dead on the island during World War II.

The three bodies were buried in Comino cemetery where they remained until November 27, 1964 when an Italian naval corvette Airone arrived at Malta and personnel from the ship conveyed the remains of the three Italians in separate caskets on board the ship which sailed to Sardinia where they were reburied in a war cemetery with full military honours.